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The wall running along the US Mexico border - Source: ONE News
Mexican police found 11 bodies in an abandoned vehicle near the
US border, some with their hands and legs cut off and left with
threatening messages scrawled by suspected drug hit men.
The bodies of the men, who were shot to death, were found in the
north-western state of Sonora in a stolen SUV with Arizona plates,
the state attorney general's office said.
A state attorney general's office spokesman said drug cartels were
likely behind the attack, although he declined to give details
about the messages left on the bodies.
The killings came a day after drug gangs shot up a police station
in a nearby town as violence flared in the state dominated by
Mexico's top trafficker, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Guzman's cartel, based in the neighbouring coastal state of
Sinaloa, is one of four powerful gangs whose battles for control of
smuggling routes into the United States have killed 2,500 people
this year.
There were 6,300 drug-related killings in 2008.
Violence is also spilling into US border states like California and
Arizona, worrying Washington.
US President Barack Obama visited Mexico City in April and promised
to crack down on the flow of American weapons into Mexico that has
helped drug gangs amass huge arsenals.
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